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What Does Foxglove The Flower Symbolize
In question nine, dandelion, daisy, and foxglove are all flowers and all share common physical characteristics’. They also share other uncommon attributes; such as they were all used at some point in medicine. They each though are special in their own way, even though they all are beautiful flowers. Daisy actually came from Old English word dægesege, meaning day’s eye. Then daisy was passed to Medieval Latin as solis oculus, meaning the sun’s eye. Daisy the flower can actually be eaten, and they originated from Europe. Dandelions came from Middle French as dent de lion, meaning lions tooth. Then dandelion made its way to Medieval Latin as dens leonis. Dandelion the flower can be eaten as well, just like daisies, but dandelions grow everywhere because they are a weed. Foxglove came from Old English, as foxes glofa the meaning is unknown though. Foxglove the flower is a very poisonous plant, if you were to eat any part …show more content…
Though what I found also is both symbols come from different origins. Swastika symbol came from Sanskrit, but the symbol itself is a Greek symbol originating back to 1871 when it was founded. In English though the symbol itself was first founded back in 1932 and was associated as the Nazis symbol. Another difference between the swastika symbol and the Nazi symbol other than where they come from and are associated to is that the Nazis had a different word for the symbol, hakenkreuz, which is a German word. Yes, the swastika symbol and hakenkreuz symbol are the same symbol, people who are offended by the swastika symbol cannot really be upset due to the fact that the swastika symbol was created first and then also the fact that they come from two completely different countries and their meanings are completely

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